Summary
Lago is an open-source and cloud-based billing and metering platform designed for businesses with complex pricing models, especially usage-based billing. It helps manage subscriptions, generate invoices, and track customer usage, offering APIs for integration and a customer portal for self-service.
Features6/19
See allMust Have
3 of 5
Developer API Integration
Billing & Subscription Management
Dashboard & Reporting
Payment Processing
Fraud Detection
Other
3 of 14
Stripe Invoicing
Webhook Event System
Customer Portal
Stripe Connect
Stripe Issuing
Stripe Terminal
Stripe Treasury
Stripe Atlas
Stripe Capital
Stripe Sigma
Stripe Tax
Multi-Currency Support
Global Payment Methods
Identity Verification
PricingFreemium
See allOpen Source
- Core billing features
- Subscription plans
- Usage-based charges
- Add-ons (one-time fees)
- Coupons (% or fixed)
- Prepaid usage with credits
- Tax management
- Billing webhooks
- PDF invoices
- Customer usage
- Custom SQL metrics
Premium
- Core billing features
- Subscription plans
- Usage-based charges
- Add-ons (one-time fees)
- Coupons (% or fixed)
- Prepaid usage with credits
- Tax management
- Billing webhooks
- PDF invoices
- Customer usage
- Custom SQL metrics
- Premium billing features
- Credit notes
- Billing in customers' timezones
- Invoice grace periods
- Instant charges
- Invoices sent by email
- Customer portal
- Price caps / minimums
- Override prices for negotiated contracts
- Commitments
- Real-time prepaid credit balance
- Revenue analytics
- Edit draft invoices
- Multiple billing entities
- Dunning and payment retries
- Alerts and budget
- Entitlements
- Progressive billing
- Usage ingestion sources
- HTTP usage ingestion source
- Custom usage ingestion sources
- Integrations
- Stripe Payments
- GoCardless
- Adyen
- Anrok (Taxes)
- Avalara (Taxes)
- Salesforce CRM & CPQ
- HubSpot
- NetSuite
- Xero
- Marketplaces & Hyperscalers
- Security
- Google SSO
- Okta SSO
- Multiple roles and permissions
- API key management
- Audit logs (activity logs, API logs and security logs)
- Support
- Slack (community answers)
- Slack private channel (Lago answers)
- Priority support (phone and email)
- Dedicated Solutions Engineer
- Custom SLA
- Training sessions
Rationale
Lago is a billing and metering platform that offers features for managing subscriptions, invoicing, and usage-based billing. While it integrates with Stripe for payments, it primarily focuses on the billing logic rather than direct payment processing. It provides APIs for integration, a customer portal, and webhooks, aligning with several 'other' features and some 'must-have' features related to billing management. However, it does not directly offer payment processing, fraud detection, or many of the specific Stripe-branded services like Stripe Connect or Stripe Terminal, which are core to the Stripe Payments Platform concept.
